Problem with Elasticsearch 5 service script

[Mark Felder]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018, at 06:42, Joachim Mathes wrote:
> Hello Elastic-Team,
> 
> we have problems with starting the elasticsearch service of package 
> https://www.freshports.org/textproc/elasticsearch5/ (2018Q2).
> When we try to start elasticsearch the rc.d-script fails with:
> 
> """
> Starting elasticsearch. Could not find any executable java binary. 
> Please install java in your PATH or set JAVA_HOME
> """
> 
> We fixed this issue by extending the PATH variable in 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/elasticsearch:
> 
> """
> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/openjdk8/bin
> """
> 
> Can you reproduce this?
> 

This was narrowed down to the user changing their root shell from csh to something else. It causes issues because /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin are no longer in PATH.

Changing the root shell is strongly discouraged as many assumptions are made about which shell your root user has.


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  Mark Felder
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